Allen West: MIND CONTROL, What we MUST do to reform education, before it’s too late

If we don’t do something, it’s just a matter of time.

As Written By Allen B. West:

In this election cycle, there’s much to be learned by what you hear — and also what you don’t hear. One of the key planks I heard resonating from the progressive socialist left during their primary was free college education. Along with that, I hear very little about education choice — charter schools, school vouchers, home schooling — from the same leftists. How often have we heard anyone from the new American socialist party speak of College 529 savings plans? Oops, sorry, it was during a State of the Union address that President Barack Obama sought to tax these tax-free savings plans in order to fund his dream of free community college.

I began to ask myself, where have I heard this rhetoric before about state control of education and making it free?

Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children’s factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production.

I graduated from a Henry Grady High School in Atlanta, Georgia, a public school. However, for grades 1-9, I attended private Catholic schools that provided me a clear advantage when I transferred my sophomore year. The problem today is that our system of education and institutions are no longer about educating and developing critical thinking skills. These have become factories of scripted memorization for standardized testing. We’re not developing productive skills in every child, but rather implementing failing policies directed by federal government standards from on high.

In the late 1970s, the federal government under the Carter administration once had a Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW). The Carter administration, in a grand expansion of government, created three separate entities: Health and Human Services; Education; and Housing and Urban Development.

Now consider, as we’ve created, expanded and heavily funded the entity called the Department of Education, what has happened with the quality and standards of education in America?

Americans are being taxed to support what we call public schools, but are actually “government forced-tax-funded schools.” Even private schools are government regulated. We have the federal government through the Department of Education, influential teachers unions such as the National Educators Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), who along with the progressive socialists advance a concept of “Outcomes Based Education.” These entities are leveraged with the goal being all children indoctrinated and inculcated with the ideological propaganda such as “pay your fair share” and revisionist history. Where are the words “fair share” in the Constitution, Bill of Rights or the Internal Revenue Code (Title 26)? Of course, they are not to be found. However, where do we find collectivist economic ideals like, “an economy that works for all”? These philosophical concepts of “fair share” and “economic equality” come from the Communist maxim, “From each according to their ability, to each according to their need.” This concept is pure socialism, Marxism — and it was Vladimir Lenin who stated, “the objective of socialism is communism.”

It’s critical that reform of our American education system becomes a fundamental issue in this current presidential election cycle. As I’ve said before, “education is the great equalizer; with a good quality education anyone can achieve their dreams…the American dream.” But one of the problems we face is that we’re losing the culture war for education in America. I often ask this question: what is the most important elected position in America? I get many answers, but on occasion, there will be one who shouts out the correct answer: school board. Education is a state and local issue, which is why we have school boards. Yet, the election with the lowest voter turnout and attention is always school board. And in the major population centers, the liberal progressive left always seeks to control school boards — therefore controlling what’s being taught, or rather indoctrinated, to our children.

Consider this: the first black president, Barack Obama, cancelled the Washington, D.C. school voucher program — meanwhile, his kids attend the prestigious Sidwell Friends School. The avowed socialist, NYC Mayor Bill DeBlasio, made very clear his war against charter schools in the city — while one of the highest performing schools in his city is Success Academy, a charter school in Harlem. And the first black attorney general, Eric Holder, brought a lawsuit against the State of Louisiana and its school voucher program — have you paid attention to the literacy rate in the Bayou State? The left abhors home schooling, and it just amazes me that the left only embraces choice when it comes to killing children, babies, not when it comes to educating them.

The question has to be, why is it that the liberal progressive left fights against any education option or choice that is contrary to state-controlled public schools?

And it’s not just K-12 where the battle wages. The left deems which institutions of higher education are approved. Of course, it comes down to those schools that advance their dogma, certainly not any instruction on constitutionally-based or free market education entities. In my time since retirement, I’ve had the pleasure and honor of being involved with three different types of schools — Hillsdale College, Keiser University and Northwood University. I’ve often had ….

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